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LONDON -- A British hacker, whose extradition to face charges of accessing nearly 100 U.S.
government computers in a quest for UFOs was halted on grounds that he might harm himself, will not
be tried in Britain, the prosecution office said yesterday.Gary McKinnon, 46, who suffers from
Asperger’s syndrome, has admitted hacking into Pentagon and NASA computers under the pseudonym “
Solo,” saying that he was looking for evidence of flying saucers and other extraterrestrial
activity.He has been fighting extradition since his 2005 arrest.He had faced up to 60 years in a
U.S. jail if found guilty of gaining unauthorized access to 97 computers and allegedly causing
$700,000 damage to U.S. military systems.JERUSALEM

Foreign minister quits while facing indictment

Facing indictment for breach of trust and fraud, Israel’s foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman,
resigned his post yesterday afternoon, upending the campaign landscape five weeks before national
elections.Lieberman, a powerful but polarizing figure, wrote on his Facebook page, “I know that I
committed no crime,” but said he was stepping down so “I will be able to put an end to this matter
swiftly and without delay and to clear my name completely.”Lieberman, who is also a member of
parliament, indicated that he still hoped to compete in the Jan. 22 balloting, suggesting a
possible plea bargain.Lieberman, 54, leads the secular, ultranationalist Yisrael Beiteinu party,
which joined forces in October with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party.

LONDON

Threats send disc jockeys into hiding in Australia

The repercussions from last week’s suicide of the nurse who answered a prank telephone call at
the hospital treating the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge were felt again yesterday with reports that
the disc jockeys who made the call had received so many threats that they had been forced into
hiding.Meanwhile, at the opening of the inquest into the episode, it emerged on Thursday that the
nurse, Jacintha Saldanha, 46, had hanged herself in the nurses’ quarters of the King Edward VII
hospital on Dec. 7, three days after the prank call.

PHOENIX

DEA probing company that owned downed jet

The company that owns a luxury jet that crashed and killed Latin music star Jenni Rivera and six
others is under investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and the agency seized
two of its planes earlier this year as part of the ongoing probe.DEA spokeswoman Lisa Webb Johnson
confirmed that the planes owned by Las Vegas-based Starwood Management were seized in Texas and
Arizona. The agency also has subpoenaed all the company’s records, including any correspondence it
has had with a former Tijuana mayor who U.S. law-enforcement officials have long suspected has ties
to organized crime. The man widely thought to be behind the aviation company is an ex-convict named
Christian Esquino, 50, who has a long and checkered legal past. It remains unclear why Rivera was
on Esquino’s plane.